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Enterprise Account Director (DACH)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of closing experience in B2B Enterprise sales (SaaS preferred)
  • Strong AI literacy and experience with sales technologies
  • Proficiency in prompt engineering

Responsibilities

  • Identify, prospect, and qualify new enterprise-level business and upsell opportunities
  • Coordinate with Coursera Business team to ensure territory success
  • Build and maintain relationships with key decision-makers
  • Develop and execute strategic sales plans to meet sales targets

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Sales
  • Problem Solving
  • Negotiation
  • Curiosity
  • Coaching
  • Communication
  • Relationship Building

About the company

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Coursera

  • EdTech
  • Scaleup
  • 1,001–5,000
Coursera partners with more than 200 leading universities and companies to bring flexible, affordable, job-relevant online learning to individuals and organizations worldwide. We offer a range of learning opportunities—from hands-on projects and courses to job-ready certificates, career credentials, and degree programs. Coursera was founded by Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng with a vision of providing life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world. Today, 75+ million learners, 100+ Fortune 500 companies, and more than 6,400 campuses, businesses, and governments come to Coursera to access world-class learning—anytime, anywhere.

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Job description

About Coursera + Udemy

Coursera and Udemy are now one company, bringing together two mission-driven brands to create the world’s most powerful platform for turning learning into progress. Together, we help more than 300 million learners and 12,000+ enterprise customers build the skills they need for a world being reshaped by AI. Read more about the combined company by visiting our blog.

Why join us now?

AI is transforming how people learn, work, and grow, and the need for new skills has never been greater. Coursera brings trusted content and credentials from leading university and industry partners, while Udemy brings a dynamic skills marketplace and global network of real-world experts. By combining these strengths, we can connect more people and organizations to the skills they need, when they need them.

Shape what comes next

By joining our team, you’ll have the opportunity to reshape how the world learns and applies skills—and help millions of people participate in the new economy. Bring your ideas, expertise, and perspective to meaningful work that can make a difference at global scale.

Coursera + Udemy lets you choose the best way to work, whether it’s from home, an office, or a collaboration space. We’re a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones — creating opportunities for teams to come together. If you’re ready to make a global impact, help scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and grow your career, apply below.

About this role:

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Enterprise Account Director to join our dynamic sales team.  The ideal candidate will be responsible for identifying and closing new business opportunities with enterprise-level clients, which are companies with 5,000 employees and above. You will focus on identifying new business opportunities, in addition to land and expand by fostering relationships to maximize opportunities within these organizations.

About your skills:

  • Problem Solving: You are skilled in creative problem-solving techniques to address client needs, overcome obstacles, and drive sales outcomes, ensuring customer satisfaction and business success.
  • Coachability: You demonstrate a strong willingness to learn, adapt, and incorporate feedback to enhance strategies and achieve performance targets, fostering continuous personal and professional growth.
  • Curiosity: You exhibit a natural curiosity and hunger for knowledge, constantly seeking to understand market trends, customer preferences, and competitive analysis to inform strategy and drive business success.
  • Outbound Mindset: You possess a proactive outbound mindset, driven to identify new business opportunities, cultivate relationships with prospects, effectively communicate value and supported by your research and rigor throughout the process.
  • AI Proficiency: You demonstrate strong AI literacy by adopting and mastering new sales technologies—such as GenAI, conversational intelligence, and AI-powered tooling—to drive efficiency. You utilize prompt engineering to create personalized messaging and to gain insight for customer meetings. You leverage data-driven insights from AI tools to craft high-impact pitches for C-level executives.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Identify, prospect, and qualify new enterprise-level business and upsell opportunities within assigned territory
  • Coordinate and work with Coursera Business team (Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, Marketing, Product, Deal Desk, Legal, key executives) to ensure territory success; customer satisfaction, expansion and retention
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key decision-makers to understand clients' business objectives and challenges to effectively position our solutions as a strategic fit
  • Develop and execute strategic sales plans to meet and exceed sales targets
  • Leverage AI-powered sales technologies, GenAI, and conversational intelligence tools to drive efficiency throughout enterprise sales cycles
  • Utilize prompt engineering to create personalized messaging for large enterprise prospects and generate insights for executive meetings
  • Apply data-driven insights from AI tools to craft high-impact pitches tailored for C-level executives and key stakeholders
  • Lead negotiations and close complex sales deals, ensuring contracts are executed accurately and in a timely manner
  • Stay updated on industry trends, market dynamics, customer feedback and competitor activities; then relay and share any insights with your team!

Qualifications:

While this work is based more on the skills a person has than what they have done, we think a typical profile could include the following:

  • We are looking for a highly motivated, over-achieving "hunter and closer" who flourishes in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
  • A minimum of 7+ years of closing experience in B2B Enterprise sales (SaaS experience preferred) or equivalent
  • Enterprise-style go-to-market playbook that includes value-based selling and leveraging Value Engineers/Solution Engineers in pre-sales
  • Experience partnering with other Account Executives in an overlay specialist sales model
  • Success in opportunity creation and "full funnel" management of many opportunities
  • Strong AI literacy with experience adopting and mastering new sales technologies in enterprise environments
  • Proficiency in prompt engineering and interpreting AI-driven insights to enhance enterprise sales effectiveness
  • Proven history of exceeding targets in selling licenses/products/subscriptions to Enterprise organizations with demonstrated ownership of all aspects of territory management
  • German language skills are a plus, but not essential


    Posting Date: 10/27/2026

    Application Window: 11/11/2026

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